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** ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'' had an almost identical subversion with Tom Paris, showing him having more and more problems fitting in over a long arc culminating in his leaving Voyager to infiltrate an enemy group.
* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''. Sometimes conflict seems randomly shoehorned in among the characters just so the writers can meet some sort of mandatory drama quota.
** Season 6 just may have been worsethe worst about this, particularly regarding {{spoiler|Xander and Anya's failed wedding}}. Or how about {{spoiler|Willow's magic addiction try try to justify her turn to the dark side after Tara is killed}}?▼
** This was particularly glaring in Season 7 when {{spoiler|everyone asked Buffy to leave. They had no particular reason to think that Buffy's plan wouldn't work, no plan of their own, and certainly had no reason to think Faith would be a better leader. And it's nearly impossible to believe that Willow and Xander would turn on Buffy after everything they've been through. But the writers wanted conflict, so it's "Get out of your own house, Buffy."}} Though this may be partially influenced by changing scripts. {{spoiler|According to rumor, Xander was supposed to be outright ''killed'' instead of just losing an eye - this was only changed when they realized there wouldn't be sufficient time to mourn him in the last episodes.}}
▲** Season 6 just may have been worse about this, particularly regarding {{spoiler|Xander and Anya's failed wedding}}. Or how about {{spoiler|Willow's magic addiction try try to justify her turn to the dark side after Tara is killed}}?
** There's a rather aggravating example in the Season 5 episode "Tough Love" where Willow and Tara suddenly get into a fight that comes out of nowhere so Tara can conveniently go out alone to get attacked by the [[Big Bad]].
** Let's just say that Joyce and Buffy's friends mishandled her return from LA on a thermonuclear level in Season 3's 'Dead Man's Party'. Joyce was an early S1 flake; Willow and Xander were their S6/7 selves four years early.
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* One episode of ''[[Saved by the Bell]]: The College Years'' has Slater discover he actually has Mexican heritage. He out of nowhere accuses Zack of being racist because Zack tries to set him up with a blonde girl. He actually says "why do you only think girls with blonde hair and blue eyes are attractive? I've dated girls with dark hair and dark eyes". This is completely ignoring that the love of Zack's life was brunette and that he dated girls of many ethnicities in high school, including their friend Lisa. Slater spends the whole episode being overly sensitive and Zack is presented as the one who needs to learn the Aesop.
* In ''[[The Dead Zone]]'' TV series, Johnny holds the ball whenever Greg Stillson is involved. One particularly annoying example is when Stillson (Vice President at the time) shows up at his house to ask for his help in bringing a space shuttle home safely after it loses radio contact. Johnny reluctantly helps him, with emphasis on ''reluctantly.'' The audience can identify with Stillson's frustration at some points, when Johnny berates him for (what he sees as) using the incident to advance his career. Come on, Johnny. You're helping a team of astronauts get home safely. Does it ''really'' matter that Stillson was the one to ask it of you? Notably, this was ''after'' Johnny had stopped getting Armageddon visions from Stillson. Stillson was still a shady, ambitious politician, but in this episode it seemed like Johnny was being a jerk for apparently no reason at all.
 
 
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